Technical Architecture Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Architecture
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 324 313
Rank change year-on-year +44 -11 -51
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 67 145 352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.64% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 84 269
10th Percentile £451 £430 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +8.44%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £725
90th Percentile £779 £749 £788
UK median daily rate £588 £610 £625
% change year-on-year -3.69% -2.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +95.71% -39.13%
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Technical Architecture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Architecture trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architecture.

Technical Architecture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Technical Architecture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architecture.

Technical Architecture hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.45%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) CMS
3 2 (2.99%) IIS
3 2 (2.99%) Kentico
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) Azure
2 23 (34.33%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) GCP
4 7 (10.45%) GitHub
5 6 (8.96%) SaaS
6 3 (4.48%) IaaS
6 3 (4.48%) PaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.99%) NuGet
7 2 (2.99%) Route 53
7 2 (2.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.49%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.49%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 1 (1.49%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
2 5 (7.46%) LAN
2 5 (7.46%) WAN
3 3 (4.48%) SAN
4 2 (2.99%) BGP
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.99%) OSPF
4 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.49%) 4G
5 1 (1.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
2 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) JMeter
3 1 (1.49%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.49%) Selenium
3 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.36%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.43%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Local Government
5 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Back Office
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (59.70%) Architect
2 14 (20.90%) Technical Architect
3 11 (16.42%) Lead
3 11 (16.42%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Consultant
4 7 (10.45%) Technical Leader
5 6 (8.96%) Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Network Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.97%) SailPoint Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (4.48%) IT Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Senior
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Lead Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Lead Full Stack Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) .NET
1 9 (13.43%) HTML
2 8 (11.94%) CSS
3 6 (8.96%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.46%) SailPoint
5 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
5 4 (5.97%) RESTful
5 4 (5.97%) SOAP
6 3 (4.48%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.48%) REST
6 3 (4.48%) XML
7 2 (2.99%) JSON
8 1 (1.49%) JSP
8 1 (1.49%) LDAP
8 1 (1.49%) Sass
8 1 (1.49%) Servlets
8 1 (1.49%) SPML
8 1 (1.49%) Spring
8 1 (1.49%) Spring Batch
8 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) IoT
4 2 (2.99%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.49%) Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Roadmaps
2 11 (16.42%) Agile
2 11 (16.42%) ArchiMate
3 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
4 9 (13.43%) DevOps
4 9 (13.43%) TOGAF
5 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
5 8 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (11.94%) Data Management
5 8 (11.94%) Design Patterns
5 8 (11.94%) Microservices
5 8 (11.94%) Migration
6 7 (10.45%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.96%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.96%) PRINCE2
7 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.96%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.94%) C#
3 7 (10.45%) Python
4 5 (7.46%) Java
5 4 (5.97%) SQL
6 2 (2.99%) Bash
6 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CCNA
5 2 (2.99%) CCNP
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) CEH
6 1 (1.49%) CISM
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) MBA
6 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.49%) PMP
6 1 (1.49%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.46%) COBIT
2 5 (7.46%) ISO 22301
2 5 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (7.46%) NCSC
3 4 (5.97%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (4.48%) QA
5 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.49%) NIST
6 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.49%) ACF2
3 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.49%) IAG
3 1 (1.49%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.99%) SCCM
4 1 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.49%) Kibana
4 1 (1.49%) logstash
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Cisco
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Palo Alto
3 5 (7.46%) Sparx
4 4 (5.97%) F5
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
4 4 (5.97%) VMware
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.48%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.49%) Apple
7 1 (1.49%) Ariba
7 1 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.49%) FIS
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.49%) Supermicro